About Desmet Ballestra Oleochemicals & Biodiesel

Presentation

Desmet Ballestra’s headquarters for the oleochemical & biodiesel activities are located in Brussels (Belgium). This is the product centre for the conception of high performance plants and components for:

Biodiesel & Methyl Esters processes;

Fatty acids processes;

Glycerine processes for sweet water, spent lyes and methylesters;

Fatty alcohol processes.

Since decades, Desmet Ballestra ventured into Oleo-chemicals and has an impressive track record...

Through various technology alliances, like with Johnson Matthey Davy Technologies for the fatty alcohols processes, combined with a strong product development: Desmet Ballestra became a major reference in this field.

In more than 40 years, Desmet Ballestra and its 21 affiliated companies have installed more than 400 oleochemical and biodiesel processes worldwide.